Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates, and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.

This article appears to be written with a political agenda, because there are incorrect statements and half truths. Kerala has a matriarchal society unlike the many other states of India and hence women have not only equal rights but even more rights when it comes to matters of family property. Kerala is the most literate state in India and have a large percentage of women employees in Government establishments, private establishments and practically in every field.The Sabarimala controversy has been brought about by vested interests.The Temple is a sacred Institution of the Hindus and is not a place for womens' activists to prove some political point. Hindu Women themselves believe and respect the religious rites of the temple and that is why there is so much protests and appeals to the Supreme Court to reconsider their order. This is the only temple which has this custom and it has nothing to do with any discrimination. It is to be noted that among the group of Jugdes who gave the judgement allowing entry to women of all ages, the lone dissenting voice was that of the Lady Judge who categorically stated that this is a matter of Faith and not of gender equality and the court has no role to play in this. The human wall was a propaganda and the fact that the Government had to advertise and prod women of different faiths to participate in it is proof of that. Hinduism believes in tolerance and many take advantage of that and political parties play along to get to power.

Its an article based on imagination, not actual facts. Women's wall was a failure. It did not garner enough enthusiasm or response. Success was limited in city pockets along the highway. Left intellectuals sitting far away in a campus and writing a column purely based upon ideological bias won't make any sense to the readers. It was a total failure. Project Syndicate is expected to publish unbiased and neutral analysis...

'Renaissance values' were misogynistic values. There were no female Michaelangelos or Da Vincis.This was a show of strength by the ruling party which mobilised State employees and patronage networks. Ludicrously, an Atheistic political party is demanding entry to the Temple of a Male, Patriarchal, God in the name of Feminism!Kerala, it seems, is indeed a lunatic asylum. Jayati Ghosh isn't from Kerala. Shashi Tharoor, who is a frequent author for Project Syndicate, is an M.P from the State. He now opposes Temple entry. Sonia Gandhi had to personally intervene to prevent Congress M.Ps from Kerala from wearing black armbands in Parliament to protest the Supreme Court's decision.

This 'wall of women' shows that Indian women don't care about issues that actually affect them. Instead they will turn out at the whim of a Male C.M to pretend they want to go to some remote Temple to a Male deity.

Read it here- https://theprint.in/opinion/forgive-me-liberal-friends-but-i-cant-completely-overlook-faith-of-sabarimala-devotees/174990/Tharoor 'explains' why he switched to being 'on the wrong side' of the Sabarimala dispute.

The truth is this is an own goal for the Left/Secularists. Supreme Court can't do its proper job- e.g. enforcing judgments on genuine issues, like water-sharing- but is sticking its nose, and getting it cut off, in areas which have no importance at all.

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